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Skills, Jobs and Benefits
Former Secretary of Labor and university professor Robert Reich argues that the public sector has a significant role to play in improving the American economy, but not in the traditional way of simply providing unemployment insurance of welfare. "It...
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American Heritage: Distinctions Between the Public and Private Sectors
Another defining characteristic of the American system is the relatively sharp distinction between what is political and should be decided in the public arena, and what is economic and should be controlled by the private sector. Since the 1970s ther...